The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

The AOM board currently includes Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and Samsung, and many companies joined as promoter members. This makes it possible for SVT-AV1 to decrease encoding time while still maintaining compression efficiency.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. DRM-free, of course. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. DRM-free, of course. Let’s figure it all out.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine).

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Analytics is a good example. That’s one example and a common one at that.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. DRM-free, of course. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. DRM-free, of course. Let’s figure it all out.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. All avatars are collected from various sources (they are always provided), and they can be filtered by age, gender and emotion, but of course you need to check the source and the license before actually using it. Google Fonts Pairings for Figma. Also, take a look at the other. slide deck.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I saw a company spending a nontrivial amount of time gathering all these statistics, asking people to constantly fill out gazillion JIRA fields, google spreadsheets, and so on, just to say at the end, “This component is in good shape, and this one is in bad.” Of course, I provide more context and explanations, but the gist is the same.

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Software Software Code Energy 245

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Over the past months, we’ve also worked very closely with Google to bring new SLO capabilities into our Software Intelligence Platform to enable all our users to scale their SRE practices. Read more: Google’s definition of the term Site Reliability Engineering. Release decision making with Service-Level Objectives (SLOs).

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 156

Website Optimization

APRIL 26, 2020

Google previously provided the average ad position (1.5 Google has replaced this metric with Impressions Top and Absolute Top (see Figure 1). Derived from Google Analytics, the average session duration shows how long the average session lasts in seconds. Figure 3: Linking Google Analytics into Google Ads.

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Google Analytics Metrics Code 59

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website! Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!,

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2019

Especially in dynamic microservices architectures, distributed tracing is an essential component of efficient monitoring, application optimization, debugging, and troubleshooting. Along with Microsoft, Google, and others, Dynatrace is a co-editor of the W3C Trace Context standard. End-to-end tracing through cloud services.

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Azure Open Source Transportation IoT 149

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The one for the menu was the longest and had INP time of 350ms – in other words, 150ms longer than Google's 200ms threshold for 'Good'. Interaction when opening the menu on French Connection Of course the French Connection page is going to have more DOM elements.

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Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Et Tu, Google? #. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. When Google first introduced the role of SRE, they set a goal that half of an SREs time should be focused on reducing future operational work or adding service features.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Of course, not all automation is created equal. OpenShift 3.0 is built on the most popular Linux container technology, Docker.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Google Chrome is currently one of the most popular web browsers used by developers today. According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. What Are the Google Chrome DevTools? For Google to index the AMP version of your page you must make sure it is validated.

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Google Website Network Media 85

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Source: Google ) ( Large preview ).

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

The challenging thing of course, is efficiently maintaining all of these parallel universes. In the prototype implementation, policies are expressed in a language similar to Google Cloud Firestore security rules. These ideas make an efficient multiverse database possible. Expressing privacy policies.

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Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Users appreciate high-quality visuals, but care needs to be taken to deliver those hero images, product photos and cat memes as efficiently and effectively as possible. The efficiency of a codec can be mainly measured by how much compression it can achieve. AVIF contributors at Google have also reported some nice performance gains.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 144

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

In ProtoCache (a component of a widely used Google application), 27% of its latency when using a traditional S+RInK design came from marshalling/un-marshalling. Google has Slicer , an auto-sharding system, but Slicer on its own still leaves many important problems unsolved: replication, consistency, cache-invalidation and so on. (At

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

LaMDA Developed by Google; few people have access to it, though its capabilities appear to be very similar to ChatGPT. Notorious for having led one Google employee to believe that it was sentient. PaLM Also developed by Google. Google has announced an API for PaLM, but at this point, there is only a waiting list.

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Google Open Source Programming Code 103

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down. I think the good news is that over time it will get less complicated.

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Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. Note: And safety categories are of course interrelated. They are acquired in a mix of ways: in-the-box in the C++ compiler, optional downloads, third-party products, and some you need to google around to discover. Efficiency. Acquisition. Portability.

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C++ Programming Code Java 139

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Source: Wikipedia Additional Benefits of IPv6 Besides just the number of addresses that are now available with IPv6, there are also a number of additional benefits such as: More efficient routing Auto-configuration abilities for easier management. (No Google also provides a chart which outlines the Per-country IPv6 adoption rate.

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Internet Internet Google IoT 49

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Take a system trained to make predictions on a language (word or character) model – an example you’re probably familiar with is Google Smart Compose. Can we efficiently extract secrets from pre-trained models? Of course, we’ll be dealing with random spaces much larger than the set of numbers from zero to nine. Wrapping up.

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Network Testing Strategy Google 55

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. PowerPoint or Google Slides). CSS Custom Paint.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. Over time, our attitude towards security on the Internet has, of course, changed to “ secure by default ”. IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC. itself directly.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Tech News Gather

JULY 20, 2022

Currently, they are a crucial catalyst to extending the reach of the medical and healthcare industry by boosting efficiency and communication as well as the quality of healthcare services. Apple’s and Google’s app stores each include more than 50,000 health-related apps. Healthcare Apps- guiding your way to better life.

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Healthcare Mobile Virtualization Availability 52

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. but the fact remains that a proportion of enterprises either outsource their email hosting to Google, Microsoft, and other providers or subscribe to cloud office productivity services that (in most cases) bundle email hosting, too.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

Within 24 hours of last month's post on regulation of technology firms , new anti-trust probes into Google and Apple were reported by the Wall Street Journal. And, of course, Kraft made similar assurances about maintaining production facilities before acquiring Cadbury only to abandoned them one week after the completion of the merger.

Transportation 40

Transportation Government Automotive Media 40

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” We can see what books and courses our customers are using, and for how long. But the gain in efficiency would be relatively small.

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter. But how does this apply to CDNs?

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. You can read about more advanced dead code elimination (aka tree shaking) in this post for Google by Jeremy Wagner. Do we have a carousel of images?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. This method is often called 0-RTT (although, of course, it still takes one round trip for the HTTP response data to start arriving). Congestion Control. As for TLS 1.3, What does it all mean?

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When it comes to CSS, there are always new tools being introduced to help us transform styles in a more fast and efficient manner. And if we take a look at Google Trends for “ PostCSS ” it appears there is definitely an upwards curve. And of course you will need Node.js, NPM, and Git installed. pipe(gulp.dest('./dest'));});

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